- We love all the earthly stock below,
Cherished by lusty eyes;
We love to tarry here on earth,
Sav’ring it’s deadly chills.
- Why covey we in bitter chase?
When sacred home exists;
There shall no sin or evil found
No peril there abide.
- O! what a lux’ry there abound,
There, all our wish to know!
The joy, the love and charity,
Abundantly is found.
- The threat of death and deadly pangs;
Here on earth not in heaven;
The sacred Saints in light array,
In sweet immortal praise.
- The holy path of Christ to tread,
Prepar’d abroad for us;
Peaceful, blissful abode on high,
The Sacred throne of God. Amen.